ThumbDV™: Ordering is Now Open

Now available from NW Digital Radio, a USB based version of the popular DV3000 AMBE™ vocoder board. The new product is the ThumbDV™ (model number DV3000U) and is available for ordering for $119.95, plus applicable taxes and shipping. Initial shipments for the ThumbDV™ are projected for the 3rd week of December, however, we cannot guarantee the shipment date until the production run is completed.

ThumbDV™

There are a limited number of ThumbDV™ units available in December, so get your order in early. We will do our best to ship in time for Christmas (US/Canada), pending any production delays. NW Digital Radio will be closed December 18th to the 29th.

Our DV3000 product, which is designed to be the vocoder for our forthcoming UDRX-440 digital radio, also acts as a popular add-on board to the Raspberry Pi single board computer and is now deployed in 25 countries around the world. This capability allows network communication through the Internet to the global D-STAR network using a computer with a microphone and speakers. The ThumbDV™ makes this functionality available on Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX* computers through a USB port in a thumb drive/dongle package. We invite developers to extend use to other platforms.

Current products in the AMBE USB space use the older AMBE-2000 series of vocoder chips which do not support additional digital voice radio standards such as DMR, System Fusion, dPMR, NXDN, P25 Phase 2 HR, and others, which can be addressed by the newer AMBE-3000 series vocoder chip as found in the DV3000 and ThumbDV™, pending further 3rd party software development.